From a post of Sunday, Dec. 19, 2004 —
Sunday Sermon
on Saturday’s Numbers
The "dots" of this post's title were subscribers to
a literary journal co-edited by poet Adrienne Rich.
Friday, June 30, 2017
Connecting Dots
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Hurriedly Put Together
The previous post quoted one theologian on a book
by another theologian, saying its tone "is patronizing
and its arguments are hurriedly put together."
For a more leisurely sort of argument, see a 1995* remark
by a mathematician, Ronald Shaw, quoted here on the morning
of Tuesday, June 27, in an update at the end of the previous day's
post "Upgrading to Six" —
". . . recall the notions of Eddington (1936) . . . ."
* In "Finite Geometry, Dirac Groups and the
Table of Real Clifford Algebras," pages 59-99 of
R. Ablamowicz and P. Lounesto (eds.),
Clifford Algebras and Spinor Structures ,
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
Rumors
Berger reportedly died on Tuesday, June 27. See the patronizing title
"Connecting the Dots" of a Log24 post on that date.
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
You Say Goodbye, I Say …
The title is from a Beatles song. See a link to 2008 in the previous post.
Harmonic Analysis for Illiterates —
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Maori Farewell
The second editor mentioned below reportedly died
on June 21, 2017. A page in his memory —
See also "Detail for Hopkins" in this journal on June 21.
For a Maori finale, see "De Haut en Bas " (July 11, 2008).
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Ominous Erotic Overture
The title is from a New Yorker review of …
"So put your glad rags on
And join me, hon …"
See also The Skeleton Twins (2014)
and Blackboard Jungle (1955).
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In Memory of Steve Jobs …
And his June 12, 2005, "Connecting the Dots" address at Stanford —
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Monday, June 26, 2017
Upgrading to Six
This post was suggested by the previous post — Four Dots —
and by the phrase "smallest perfect" in this journal.
Related material (click to enlarge) —
Detail —
From the work of Eddington cited in 1974 by von Franz —
See also Dirac and Geometry and Kummer in this journal.
Updates from the morning of June 27 —
Ron Shaw on Eddington's triads "associated in conjugate pairs" —
For more about hyperbolic and isotropic lines in PG(3,2),
see posts tagged Diamond Theorem Correlation.
For Shaw, in memoriam — See Contrapuntal Interweaving and The Fugue.
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Four Dots
Analogies — “A : B :: C : D” may be read “A is to B as C is to D.”
Gian-Carlo Rota on Heidegger…
“… The universal as is given various names in Heidegger’s writings….
The discovery of the universal as is Heidegger’s contribution to philosophy….
The universal ‘as‘ is the surgence of sense in Man, the shepherd of Being.
The disclosure of the primordial as is the end of a search that began with Plato….
This search comes to its conclusion with Heidegger.”
— “Three Senses of ‘A is B’ in Heideggger,” Ch. 17 in Indiscrete Thoughts
See also Four Dots in this journal.
Some context: McLuhan + Analogy.
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Sunday, June 25, 2017
Do Do for Dodos
"Do do that voodoo . . . ." — Cole Porter
This post's title was suggested by a new novel,
"The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O." . . . .
. . . and by the concepts of
synchronicity and diachronicity
in music.
Related reading for Harvard Summer School (click to enlarge) —
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Saturday, June 24, 2017
It’s 10 PM.
Joke question from the 2013 film "Her" —
"What does a baby computer call its father?"
Answer for Harvard Summer School —
"Department of Diachronic Operations."
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Imagekind Meet Seerkind
Imagekind —
Seerkind —
This post may be regarded as a sequel to the post Dream Girls (Oct. 5, 2013).
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Witwiccans Go to College*
* Title suggested by my viewing last night "Revenge of the Fallen,"
no. 2 in the Transformers series. That film reportedly opened
on this date eight years ago.
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Friday, June 23, 2017
Annals of Art and Design
The life of Mr. Breder is not unrelated to that of Carl Andre.
See also, in this journal, Bulk Apperception.
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A Kind of Cross* Continued
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A Kind of Cross
"For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross."
— Gravity's Rainbow
See also Heidegger + Rift in this journal.
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“Information from the Middle of the Night”
The title is from an obituary in tonight's online New York Times.
Information —
See also another art publication cover from 1976 —
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Thursday, June 22, 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Design Is How It Works: A Bedtime Story
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Detail for Hopkins
Detail from the previous post —
See Space Cross in this journal.
See also Anthony Hopkins' new film
"Transformers: The Last Knight" and …
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Concept and Realization
Remark on conceptual art quoted in the previous post —
"…he’s giving the concept but not the realization."
A concept — See a note from this date in 1983:
A realization —
Not the best possible realization, but enough for proof of concept .
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Truly Tasteless* Tulips
Excerpt from the above story —
"The project could also be a new frontier for Mr. Koons.
'It’s superconceptual,' said Judith Benhamou-Huet,
a French art critic and blogger, in that 'he’s giving
the concept but not the realization.' She compared
the approach to that of Sol LeWitt, who sold wall drawings
that buyers then executed on their own."
See also the previous post and Rota on Beauty.
* A reference to Truly Tasteless Jokes , by Blanche Knott
(Book 1 of 11, Ballantine Books paperback, May 1985, page 50).
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All-Spark Notes
"For years, the AllSpark rested, sitting dormant
like a giant, useless art installation."
— Vinnie Mancuso at Collider.com yesterday
Related material —
Giant, useless art installation —
Sol LeWitt at MASS MoCA. See also LeWitt in this journal.
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Epic
Continuing the previous post's theme …
Group actions on partitions —
Cube Bricks 1984 —
Related material — Posts now tagged Device Narratives.
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Monday, June 19, 2017
Dead End
The above 1985 note was an attempt to view the diamond theorem
in a more general context. I know no more about the note now than
I did in 1985. The only item in the search results above that is not
by me (the seventh) seems of little relevance.
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Singularity
Log24 ten years ago today —
"Here, in a strategy of simple erasure,
the Subject masks his singularity . . . ."
— Jacques Derrida
See also the previous post and . . .
— Detail from the ending of Philip Pullman's new
graphic novel "Mystery of the Ghost Ship"
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“Design Is How It Works”*
* See the title in this journal.
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